Chi Li

Chi Li (born 30 May 1957) is a contemporary female Chinese writer based in Wuhan. She graduated from department of Chinese literature at Wuhan University in 1986.[2][3] The setting for some of her stories is Changtangkou (长埫口镇) in Xiantao, Hubei.

Chi Li
Native name
池莉
Born (1957-05-30) May 30, 1957
Xiantao,[1] Hubei, China
OccupationNovelist
LanguageChinese
ResidenceWuhan, Hubei
NationalityChinese
Alma materWuhan University
Period1986 - present
GenreNovel
Notable worksLife Show
Comes and Goes
Don't Talk about Love
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chi.
Chi Li
Chinese池莉

In 2014, she participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA.[4]

Works

Chi Li has written a number of novels, including the following:

  • Life Show, a story about the owner of a small restaurant on Jiqing Street in Wuhan. The book was later made into a movie, also titled Life Show, starring Tao Hong and Tao Zeru.
  • Comes and Goes, a story of extramarital affairs occurring in Wuhan. TV series of same name starring Pu Cunxin, Lü Liping, Xu Qing, Li Xiaoran.
  • Don't Talk about Love and The Sun was Born, adapted into TV series Don't Talk about Love. Two antithetical families took totally different attitudes to their children's love.
  • Good Morning, Lady, adapted to a 20-episode TV series of same name.
  • Willow Waist
  • Cold or Hot, It's Good to Live (冷也好熱也好活著就好), 1990
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gollark: For that price you could buy much better things like 3 very dense GPU servers.
gollark: I mean "accelerationism" like that political thing where you help the opposing movement because it'll magically destroy itself or something.
gollark: It would no longer be possible for humans to cut many of them down.
gollark: Also deforestation. There are so many upsides.

References
  1. Leung, Laifong (2017). "Chi Li". Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers: Biography, Bibliography, and Critical Assessment. Routledge. pp. 51–55. ISBN 978-0-7656-1760-6.
  2. Hongwei Lu (2006). "TV Romance and Popular Cultural Mood: The Chi Li Phenomenon". The China Review. Chinese University Press. 6 (1): 125 ff. ISSN 1680-2012.
  3. "Chi Li, a Special Figure among Chinese Writers". Archived from the original on 11 March 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  4. "2014 Resident Participants | The International Writing Program". iwp.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-10.


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